Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a prospect should have been foreseen before eight of the Green Berets stationed in Viet Nam, including the Special Forces commander, Colonel Robert Rheault, were arrested last July. Certainly, when they were charged with the murder of Chuyen, the devastating public consequences were clear. Yet it took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army...
...learned to live with the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and his political misfortunes. In recent days, he has displayed a marked resilience. He has lost 20 lbs.-leading to a Capitol Hill sick joke: "There must be an easier way to lose weight." He is clear-eyed, the puffy jowls are gone, his hair is razor-cut in the back with the sideburns shorter. His handshake is firm once more...
Saltonstall, son of former Senator and Governor Leverett Saltonstall, had a clear advantage with his famous name, although he was a less engaging campaigner than the somewhat wooden Harrington. But Saltonstall carried his fealty to Nixonian policies to extremes. He also engaged Harrington in two televised debates. This contrasted the Democrat's rapid-fire manner of speech with Saltonstall's inarticulateness...
...must admit that I find much more clear thinking and commitment among students than among the Faculty," he added...
From the start, the lines that split the Faculty were clear: while most members were personally ready to oppose the war, a large group of them feared the damage a "political" vote might do to the Faculty's academic integrity. Their fears were not well-grounded: if a Faculty member can admit there are some conceivable circumstances that might justify a step away from neutrality, then he should see that the Vietnam War calls for such a step...